Sunday Synth Jam: Reader Miguel Fernandes, aka starshipfive, shared this live cover of Daft Punk‘s Get Lucky. Fernandes says that he wasn’t trying to recreate the original, but to create an original arrangement that had more of an electronic feel.
Sunday Synth Jam: Rheyne shared this video, which captures a synth jam for a polyphonic Moog setup, based on three Mother 32 Euro modules, controlled by a KMI QuNexus. Here’s what Rheyne has to say about the technical details:
At Moogfest 2016, Moog Music reintroduced the classic Minimoog Model D. In the video above, Moog synth guru Nick Montoya shares a look inside of the new Minimoog Model D, explains some of the lengths they went to to reproduce the original’s sound, and also notes what some things that they changed to make the new Minimoog more reliable and serviceable.
Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via 100 Things I Do, captures an ambient performance on the Dave Smith Instruments Pro 2 synthesizer.
At Moogfest 2016, the lawn of the Aloft Hotel is home for the Musical Playground – a geodesic dome incorporating analog and digital instruments from Critter and Guitari.
At Moogfest 2016, design firm IDEO has an interactive sound installation onsite, Play-Sound, aka The Beach Ball Synthesizer. The installation lets you play with sound by moving body-scaled inflatable spheres. Here’s a brief video showing the Beach Ball Synth in action:
Earlier in the year, we reported that The Lawrence Public Library Is Getting A Monster Modular Synthesizer. Now the custom modular synth, created by Lawrence-based Free State FX, is freely available at the Lawrence Public Library, as part of their Sound + Vision studio. This video, via Jade Guitarmaker, offers a preview of the instrument and what it’s capable of.… Read More Modular Synth Jam At The Lawrence Public Library
This video, via producer celldweller, offers his take on the new Moog Minimoog Model D reissue. Moog has taken what it learned about 70s synth parts and manufacturing inreissuing the classic Moog Modulars, and is applying it to recreating the iconic Minimoog. They are using the same components and circuit board layout of the original Model D,… Read More Celldweller On The New Minimoog
This video, via RetroSound, takes a look at a variety of patches, on both a vintage Oberheim OX-Xa and a Dave Smith Instruments OB-6 synthesizer.
At Moogfest 2016, Moog is piloting production of a new Minimoog Model D synthesizer – a ‘painstaking recreation of the original’ that also offers a few new tricks. Moog has made new Minimoog circuit boards and used the original parts, in order to recreate the classic synth’s sound. But they’ve also incorporated sensible updates, including a… Read More Moog Minimoog Model D Reissue Hands-On Demo
